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wednes ([personal profile] wednes) wrote2005-10-16 06:16 pm
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"Mad Props" is also the name of my theatrical knick-knack shoppe. Get it??

Mad props to [profile] sleazeanna for giving me a copy of the Stewie movie. I shall be watching it later this evening with [profile] uterdic and [profile] smarbaby. That should prove to be riotous fun. I almost had to cancel the get-together because our toilet was broken and I was not able to plunge it out. But the emergency maintenance guy drove out from Dundee (about 25 minutes with no traffic) to fix it. He was freindly, nice and didn't leave a mess or complain about driving out here on a Sunday. I was very impressed and will call management tomorrow to tell them likewise. I always try to call if I have something complimentary to say so I'm not just calling when I'm pissed.

Yesterday, I hung out with [profile] nate101000, [profile] mguto75 and [profile] absinthofheart. We were going to watch Kinsey but didn't in favor of catching the replay of Law & Order CI so that I could watch Chris Noth in all his hunky glory. I love that guy. But his character is rather unenlightened.

Friday night was group movie night. Five of us got together for tiny cakes, undercooked cookies and a viewing of Heavenly Creatures. Good times.

Still working on my preparations for NaNoWriMo. I want to have all my chapter objectives worked out before I start. That will lead to slightly less adjustments and editing later; though it may inhibit the organic plot growth I love so well. But you know, it will be cool to experiment and see what happens. Last time around, I had just the vaguest idea of what would happen and what the theme would be. Everything else happened as I was writing. It might be nice though, if it is less of a um...soul sucking mind fucker this time around.

I found a few ads worth pursuing in todays job listings. I figure I might as well apply to manage at that dollar theatre in the mall. I'd have to learn projection though. Frown. I'm also applying to work the overnights at SOS Comm services, and for a receptionsit gig. I have a couple of slick job outfits to wear now, I feel slightly better able to find a good job. We shall see.

[identity profile] stranger-tales.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Friday night was group movie night. Five of us got together for tiny cakes, undercooked cookies and a viewing of Heavenly Creatures. Good times."

There's nothing quite like eating tiny cakes while watching a girl and her friend bash in her mum's head with big rocks. Good times indeed.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
See...THIS guy knows what I'm talking about!

Hey! Go for that Theater job!

[identity profile] paulcurtis.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I did, back in '87. Walked in with the clipping from the newspaper...turned out I was the least unpromising of the many applicants (what a bunch of losers the other guys musta been!) and picked up the Projectionist skills quite rapidly. Pay: not great, but it's only a few hours a day and I had a whale of a time. Less than a year later the other theater in town hired me away as a manager. Surely you could do equally well, and you probably don't come off quite as much like a dimwit as I did.

Re: Hey! Go for that Theater job!

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Ha. I can't really picture a circumstance where I'd call you a "dimwit". But I am indeed going to go for it. It's close to where I live; and the current projectionist is a cool guy. He's [livejournal.com profile] psychswitch in fact.

As always, I appreciate the support!

Re: Hey! Go for that Theater job!

[identity profile] paulcurtis.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Bless your heart!

But I really do come off a klutz when I hafta learn things that take timing and coordination (how I got the Sound Effects gig with the radio station is pure luck)...and I must say movie projectors are delightfully intuitive to work with. And if you already know the Projectionist, that's a double-plus.

Best hallucination I ever had was when I was working in that theater (lack of sleep, not drugs or insanity.)

Re: Hey! Go for that Theater job!

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
I have found that lack of sleep always produces the best hallucinations.

[identity profile] rivetkitten.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
My friend had to watch Heavenly Creatures for one of his Cinema classes, and I watched it with him. And then my roommate and I watched it. Let me tell ya, watching it with cinema majors is something else... And it has completely changed the way we say "fenteastic."

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
LOL

[identity profile] stranger-tales.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The first time I saw Heavenly Creatures was when it had just hit video. I don't remember if I picked it out or if my girlfriend at the time did. I was sorta out of the loop with Horror and Jackson and such at the time so it could've gone either way. I remember watching it with her and me pretty well loving it right off the bat while she was fairly freaked out by it.

We had watched it over at her folks' house and probably had sex afterwards on their couch or something. When they came home and asked what movie we'd watched, she says "Oh, HE got one about these teenage lesbians who kill their mother". That went over really well as you might imagine.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, those matricidal long-hairs are not exactly parent-friendly...I loves 'em though!

[identity profile] madush69.livejournal.com 2005-10-17 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You should totally apply.